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And I laugh. I'm like, trust me, you will never
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build that much muscle, Like it's so hard, you know,
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for an Indian woman in the fifties. I'm telling you,
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ethnically speaking, taking all that into consideration, you're lucky to
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build a pound of muscle in three to four months. Like, yeah,
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I can imagine, but obviously it's a little bit faster.
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But I'm like, that should be the last of your concerns.
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You're listening to Ruckus Avenue Radio, available now on the
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So, hello everyone, and welcome to Ruckus Avenue Radio. And
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I am your host, Camal Khan for my show Bollywood
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to Hollywood, and I'm very inspired and excited to have
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Ushaw with us here as well. Usha Patel, right, and Usha,
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thank you for being on the show. You are for
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everyone who's who's listening in a professional bodybuilder. You're also
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on the board at USC and we'll go into that
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a little bit as well, but you're also VP of
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Sales and Applications at an aerospace company. So there's a
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lot going on there that you know you're you're part of.
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And congratulations because there's a lot to talk about in
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terms of what your goals are and what you've already achieved,
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and I think it's particularly inspiring as a professional female
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bodybuilder that we first started talking about, amongst other things,
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and your routine and so well, first of all, thank
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you for being on the show, and thank you for
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sharing your story.
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Well, it's really a pleasure to be here. It's an
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honor that you thought of me. There's a lot I do,
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but there was kind of like a method to the madness, right.
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It seems like we do a lot, but if you
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have the disciplined lifestyle, it actually is like brushing your teeth.
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It's just something that you don't think about, you just do.
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So I do. One of the biggest I guess, if
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you can say the waste of time in my daily
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routine is my commute. So I actually live in Orange
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County and I commute to our factory in Los Angeles
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every day, so I spend two and a half to
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three hours in the car. That's that's when I learn
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about a lot of research. I like, I biohack my
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body in certain ways, you know, I look at I
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listen to articles on just wellness, longevity and just to
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augment my progress every day. So I have that downtime
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where I'm just learning in the car. Every now and
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then I'll make phone calls, you know, I catch up
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with friends. But really that's my time for research. I
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wake up. But sometimes when I'm cutting, I wake up
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at about three forty five in the morning. At four
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in the morning during like the prep stage. And by
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prep stage, I mean that's your cutting stage before you
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get on get on to compete for show. So you
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wake up early in the morning. You do a fasted
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cardio for forty five minutes an hour whatever it is.
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You don't eat anything. You just do cardio, and then
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I prep my meals, you know, I make my my
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I have I'm given a diet plan that's extremely specific,
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if you know, you don't even change out, like up
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to five grams. I have to meet my macros within
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five grams. And then so I prep that I leave
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at seven thirty in the morning, I drive to LA
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I have a full day of work, you know, I
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work with my top companies I work with are Boeing, Lockheed, Norfolk,
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Thrum and Raytheon, you know, big companies. Our company actually
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it's our family business, and we make military electronics for
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the US Navy and the Air Force. So it's it's
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you know, it's not it's a job that I need
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a tremendous amount of focus. I read a lot of
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big contracts things like that, and then after my day
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is over, I jump in my car. It's about six
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thirty seven. I get to the gym at seven PM,
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and that's when I do my strength training.
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Gotcha.
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And after
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a full day of carbs and things like that,
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I do my strength training. I'm home by eight thirty,
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I eat my dinner, and then I try to hit
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bad by about nine thirty. So that's pretty one day.
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And I can only do this because all the kids
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are out of the house. I'm not having to come
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home and make dinner and all of that. You know,
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all my meals are prepped for my husband and I
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for about four or five days. That's what I did
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this Sunday today, this morning, I prepped all my meals.
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Well, that's fantastic.
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And you talked about discipline and you know, having a
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method to the madness, and I think you kind of
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described a little bit bit that already with what you
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just shared that I mean, it's it takes discipline and
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routine to kind of keep that going, right, But like
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you said, it can become a habit. What I'm curious about,
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so the kids are out of the house. I mean
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you don't have kids at home.
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Yeah, my youngest one left exactly three years ago when
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I started bodybuilding.
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While you started three years ago.
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Hold on, I started three years ago. I had no muscle.
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I had like just a regular amount of muscle, like
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any Indian girl, you see. And I started this whole
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journey when the last kid out of my three left
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to college. So, just to give you an idea, my
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older one is close to twenty nine. I have a
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middle one that's twenty seven. And Sean, my youngest, is
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now twenty one. He is off to college. And as
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soon as he left, he's actually a competitive powerlifter. So
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I make his meals for him and I send it
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to USC. Like today, I made his entire all his
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beef and rice and all of that for the week,
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and I'm sending it over to him. So but as
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soon as he left. You know, it's a selfish sport, right.
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It's my schedule is really tight. I don't have a
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lot of discretionary time. I'll fit in
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a couple of social outings, which I don't like to
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do during the week anyways, but you know, you have
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to accommodate sometimes, and that's that's like my day in
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a nutshell.
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I think that that's where you probably spend most of
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your time to keep that discipline in order to be
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able to compete and perform. If you're a professional athlete,
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just like anybody would. I'm assuming and you can correct
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me if I'm wrong. Look, if you're a swimmer or
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if you're an athlete running, you've got to put in
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the hours and you've got to get enough sleep in
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order to be able to then perform when.
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It's crunch time.
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But have you done that prep and just show up
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and think, well, actually today I'll just kind of hang
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out and go out till two in the.
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Morning and then come back and maybe I'll figure this out.
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I'm sure that doesn't quite the other You'll be you know,
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the competition will take over like they'll they'll.
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Be exactly and you'll you know, you're competing into everybody
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that's doing it, and most people actually compete with on stage,
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they're in the fitness industry, like they own gyms or
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their fitness trainers as their job, right, so they have
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a little more flexibility. I just have to be extremely
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regimented because I don't have a lot of time. I
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have to be extremely efficient. When I'm in the gym,
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I'm in there for an hour and ten minutes. I
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lift intensely, I you know, lift heavy, and you try
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to make the most efficient workout out of the time
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you have, and then you have to come home and sleep,
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you know, sleeping.
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Recovery, especially when you're in your fifties. Recovery is critical.
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Absolutely, And that's what I want want to come on
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to u Usha is like, listen, we met and I
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was saying that you know, there's there's not there's it's
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inspiring just somebody in their fifties, a female in their fifties.
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But let alone, that's one piece of it. And then
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also the fact that you are South Asian Indian background.
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I don't see that happened too many of them, not
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just women but men. Even it doesn't happen very often.
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We you know, we we're we're looking after yourself. Your
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body's a typical diet that you have in a South
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Asian diet isn't actually conducive to keeping very lean and fit.
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in certain places where you know, and especially here living
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in the US, where people don't walk very much, especially and.
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Our genes work against us. Our South Asian gens are
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not you know, we're not gifted with that genetic makeup, right.
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than somebody and other ethnicity, for example, just to be
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able to build that muscle. I'm actually raised South Indian,
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like Brahmin. I'm South Indian Brahm and rice eating, you know,
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and I was plant based till about three years ago
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when I realized, oh my gosh, diet is so important.
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I won't be able to do the sport being a
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plant based. I mean, you have one out of you know,
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one or two out of one hundred athletes are gifted
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enough and they're general younger to be able to do this.
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Like on an Indian diet, you know, there's eating doll
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and rice, which is a really good meal. It's nutritious,
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but it's not going to get you to change your
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phys come. I guarantee you.
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of carbs as well as Yeah, that's approtein and dollin, right,
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rare to be able to have that and post. If
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you're younger, you can get away with it, but when
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you're older, it's a.
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Completely different process.
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because you know, fine, you've been doing this for three.
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Years and you look amazing.
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You know you obviously we can see that from the
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people who don't follow you, but it's on your Instagram.
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You can see your pictures and you're sharing that.
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But you're inspiring others, hopefully who were then sort of saying, oh, wow,
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she can she can do this. I can do it potentially,
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and then if she can do it in the fifties,
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well maybe I can do it in my fifties. And
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maybe now I have the time that I didn't have before,
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et cetera, et cetera. And so maybe it is a
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time factor, because I do think some of the people
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nowadays in general, aside from ethnicities, men or women, you're
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starting to see a lot of people now that are
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older able to look after themselves a little bit more,
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maybe thinking Okay, well I was not as fit in
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my twenties even thirties, but guess what now in my
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forties fifties, I'm actually able to go to the gym,
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and I'm really going to focus on myself, which is,
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you know, it's interesting, but I want to know how
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you got into it, like what made you like well
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to get a.
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Fitness another thing to sort of say, I'm going to
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be a bodybuilder.
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I've always been fascinated with bodybuilders. You know, Arnold's been
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my idol since I was eighteen years old, so it's
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always something that I admire, right, But I've been a
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pretty much an endurance athlete most of my life, So
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I I've always been athletic, Okay, from the beginning. I
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play a lot of sports and even in college, but
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I've been a triathlete for upwards of ten years, and
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a skier and all of that, but it's all like endurance.
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ski accident and where they had to completely reconstruct my
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right knee and I pretty much my running
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a knee replacement of two or three years because it's
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pretty born down. So my surgeon's like, okay, well, you know,
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I recommend you don't run anymore. And that's all I knew. Run, swim, bike,
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those are the things I did. So I said, maybe
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this is the time. So I joined a gym and
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I started just weightlecting, no plans at all for competing
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or anything like that. So this was I was fifty two,
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and this was exactly three years ago. So today I'm
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fifty five. So at fifty two I started. I started
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with a coach that he's competed in the past. He's
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local yor Gonda, and we started training and he goes
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six months in the training and he goes, you know,
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you kind of have some good genetics or you have
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been sticking to my plan. You're fairly disciplined person. Why
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don't we try a competition in four months? And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no,
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you know that's like too much. As we progressed, he's like,
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you should just try it. It's local, you don't have
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to travel anywhere. And you know, it wasn't a big league,
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it was a small natural league. And I entered the competition,
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bought a suit, did all you know, posing practice all
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of that, and I go in there just nonchalantly, really
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didn't know what I was doing. I started bodybuilding in
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March first, and I competed on September thirtieth, and I
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won every category. I won fifty plus, I won forty
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five plus and I won forty plus and I'm like,
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what wait, what is this for real? So he's like, listen,
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I told you that's why you should compete. Now get serious.
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So I entered like a large national competition that first year,
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and I got humbled, right like IFBB. I entered the NPC,
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which is the largest big league of the world, right
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the amateur league, and I got creamed because now you're
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you know, you're with the big big kids. So then
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I spent the next two years just completely stuck to
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my plan, super strict with my diet and the one
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thing you have to be the most Indian women, I
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actually most women are afraid to gain weight, but you
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gain you have to gain weight. The process is you
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eat a lot in your bulking stage, right which you
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call off season, which I'm in right now, you gain
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the weight. And I gained seventeen pounds. So I was like, oh, shoot,
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like now I'm actually bat How am I going to
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lose this? Right? But you got to trust the process,
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and you got to follow the process, and you bulk up.
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so you'll build muscle and you'll add some body fat
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to you and then you start cutting. And the cutting
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stage for me at the time, usually my preps are
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about sixteen weeks, so about four months of cutting. If
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you do it slowly, you're losing about just a pound
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or just under a pound a week consistent, and that
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gets you at this point. Now I only have to
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lose about eleven pounds within eleven twelve pounds of stage weight,
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because now I understand the system. I'm not going to
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let my weight go up that high. So you cannot
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be afraid to gain weight. And women usually look at
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the scale and freak out and do not even realize
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that their body composition is changing. So that's one big
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part of the most like comments I hear is I
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don't want to build muscle too much and look like
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a man, And I laugh. I'm like, trust me, you
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will never build that much muscle like it's so hard,
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you know, for an Indian woman in the fifties, I'm
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telling you, ethnically speaking, taking all that into consideration, you're
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lucky to build a pound of muscle in three to
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four months.
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You're listening to Ruckus Avenue radio.
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Okay, that is obviously it's a little bit faster, But
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I'm like, that should be the last of your concerns.
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Just eat, like, eat a caloric surplus by two, three,
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four hundred calories. You know your coach will give it
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to you. And I'm not stappening sugars. I'm talking actual
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like protein, complex carbohydrates and healthy fats. You know, you're
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eating good food and gain that and then you go
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into your cut. And I implemented this earlier this year.
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I trained a group of about fifteen local like friends
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and acquaintances in the community. My husband was one of
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the guinea pigs. He dropped from January seventeenth till now,
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he's dropped twenty five pounds of body fat. He is
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pretty vascular, shredded, and he's sticking to his diet. He
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gets a lot of food, but he's training consistently. He trains.
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He doesn't train like me, but he trains about four
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times a week. I'm closer to five or six. But
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he trains consistently and his entire composition is shredded everywhere
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he goes. Now he's getting compliments and he doesn't want
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to cheat. He sees the results, he sees the result
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of this body, and he doesn't want to cheat.
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Yeah, no, I get it. How does one need to
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train seven days a week?
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No, you never train seven days a week. You need
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a minimum of two rest days a week. Okay, And
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one of my rest days actually I have a one
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complete rest dingy, no cardio, no nothing, and one the
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rest day I just do core exercises, you know, playing
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things like that. But your body has to recover.
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Right, okay, So and on those training days he's described
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him and it's great, by the way, you talk about
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the story of how to you know, you know, being
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pretty strict to the diet and you see the results, right.
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Problem is, I mean.
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Even myself, I haven't got a clue when I was
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training ims and ideas or trainers and you know, people
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tell you different things, depends what you read. But you
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people don't even talk about the macros that people say
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they going to the gym and whatnot. But if you're
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not really measuring it, if you're training for something they're
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really measuring it, it's really hard to tell, right, and
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myself too, and like, well, why haven't I gained weight
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or lost weight or cut body fat? What advice do
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you have to those who are basically doing that?
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Right?
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They're maybe going to the gym, they are doing weights,
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like maybe they're doing cardio in the evenings, and you know,
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maybe they're doing weights during the morning or whatever it is.
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Maybe they're training five days a week.
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What could they be doing and what do they need
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to do about their nutrition to match these things for
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the average person?
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Right? And who really wants to cut wants to be leaner?
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Okay, So really it's data that you need, right, It's data,
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And I operate on data that I'm an engineer. I
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love numbers, and I base a lot of you know,
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even to pick your macro nutrients, it's all based on data.
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So the first thing I told all those fifteen people
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that I coached earlier this year, I said, go get
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a Dexa scan, which is you know, a Dexa scan
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is it's that bone mineral scan. But it's the most
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accurate it's even more accurate than a you know the
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the question, yes, yes, So you get a DEXA so
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you know your body composition. You know kind of like
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where your fat is distributed. You know the amount of
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visceral fat that you have versus subcutaneous fact. But the
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most important measure is your RMR, which is your resting
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metabolic rate. Is the number of calories you need to
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keep yourself alive. So for most women my age have
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moderate amount of activity, it could anywhere. It could be
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anywhere from eleven hundred and fifty to mine's a little higher.
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I'm closer to fourteen hundred because it's it's a function
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of how much lean muscle you have. And this is
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just your number that you need to know. What your
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number is to stay that's your basic metabolic function. It's
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to keep your organs moving and for you to be alive. Okay,
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So once you know that number, then you know how
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to put yourself in a deficit and in a surplus.
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So just to clarify people listening to it, you need
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to get the dock. Someone it which taking order DEXA scan.
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It's a scan and they do that in their local gym.
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Can they go order an Amazon.
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What do they need to do.
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No, it's it's a company. Uh, just google DEXSA scan
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and you'll see a series of companies. Body Spec is
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the one I use. It's a van. It's like an
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X ray machine. You lay and the extra machine kind
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of scans over you and you'll get a full eight
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page report breaking down the fat and the muscle you
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have on your left arm versus your right arm. I mean,
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it's your extremely accurate data. And now you see that.
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And most women are that I coached, they saw it
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and they're like went into a deep depression. They're like,
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oh my god, no, this is not true. These numbers
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can't be true. Even men that thought they were ripped
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and shredded, they're in the mid twenties, you know, mid
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twenty five, twenty six, and they look lean. They look
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but the function of the amount of it's a function
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about the amount of lean muscle versus your body weight.
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Right, So they could be in their twenty percentiles and
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stuff like that.
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And my husband Mayan was he measured his decks. He
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was at twenty three percent body fat. Today he's about
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walking around normally around.
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Twelve okay, gotcha. And he looks lean, cut, shredded, wow
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like vascular.
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And he eats a lot of food. He eats six good,
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big meals a day. He's not crazy disciplined like me.
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He he goes out, has a couple of drinks. You know,
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over
the weekends, you know, he will go to a
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restaurant and he's not gonna he orders a full meal.
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He's he'll take a couple of bites and dessert. So
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he's not abstaining himself.
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Yeah, and he's still living his life.
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He's living his life, he's enjoying it. But his body
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composition has changed.
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He works galories right because he knows probably also what
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macro's to take and how he knows his body sort
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of well enough and understand this. So for those who
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are trying to do this, it's probably better to go
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and get that taxa scan. Now, can they go so
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you don't have to go? You have to go somewhere
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to get this taxa scan.
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Yeah, usually they come into different gyms. Axiom Fitness locally
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here has them come in once a month. But if
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you google Dexa Scan and Body spec is the local
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company here in Orange County, you can see when they
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come in and go get a scan. It is an
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accurate scan. Even if you can even just go get
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the in body scan, the inbod machines or they're not
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as accurate, but you're only looking for a relative measurement.
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You don't need an absolutely measurement. You want to see
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how you can go up and down, and they have
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them at twenty four hour the in body machine where
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you hold on you know, you stay so but data
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is critical, so you need to know what you're at
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so you can change that.
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So for salv Asian people, So just to summarize, you know,
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because I mean, you've obviously done this, you're at a
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professional level. So let's assume you're in your coaching others,
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because people do need that. They need the advice because
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you just can go and do the wrong things otherwise.
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So let's assume that they've done all that.
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Now at that point, they know they have some data
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as to what they are in their current state. Maybe
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they're at twenty five percent percentile whatnot. I'm just making
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it up. Then what do they need to do next?
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How do they figure out their macros?
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Are they going to go?
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Well, it's hard for them to start like that, So
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you go to a coach, you go to any any
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you know, bodybuilder friend or somebody like me, and I
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usually take a look at them and I say, what
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what is your you know, how strongly are you willing
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to commit to this? And then you kind of set
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your macros. You don't want to set your crazy macros
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that they cannot meet. So you your coach actually shouldn't know, Okay,
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I think this person loves loves to drink over the weekends,
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you know, loves like so you kind of need to
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know what is the most effective strategy for them to
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stick to it long term. But I would I have
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given a lot of different macros, and about half the
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people follow them. Half the people are like, I can't
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hit my protein goal. I go, you eat meat?
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Sure you can't, right, Okay? So just yeah, And so
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that's one piece of it. And then obviously from there
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is training and then the balance of that.
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But it's training with intensity. It's training with hypertrophy. Right.
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Hypertrophy is when you the muscles fail. It's training with
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progressive overload. You're not doing ten pound weights over and
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over again. You know, there's a method. Once you hit
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that weight, you increase you increase the weight weekly until
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you know you get to a certain rep count and
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all of that. There's there's a whole training method because
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you want to build lean muscle, and you're never going
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to build lean muscle if you're lifting the same amount
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of weights and doing the same exercises every every time
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you go to the gym.
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So and this is great because you know it's true.
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I mean people go to the their whether you join
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an equinox or you know, high end gym, or whether
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you're in
LA Fitness or twenty four hour Fitness. There's
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going to be various trainers out there, but they will
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also do ask what your lifestyles like, and you're right,
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you know, if you'd like to go drinking over the weekend,
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if you like to go out for meals every day,
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maybe you're a salesman who travels every single day'll figure
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out what to do. But so moving to yourself, I mean,
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I think, let's assume, so you've got fifteen people that
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you coach that older I'm assuming diferent goals of their own.
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How did you get into it in terms of like,
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you know, what motivated any role as an athlete? And
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I get that, get that and an injury and spider
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to go in a different direction. But it is, as
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you mentioned your routine, it's you've obviously driven by something,
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a goal to get somewhere. Was it were you feeling
479
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very proud of being South Asian and being able to
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do this? I think Indian people out there are say, hey,
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you were in into I know, I'm proud of you too,
482
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Let's do this together.
483
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Or is it like you feel like you're a rarity
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out there?
485
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I think you know at the stage of my life
486
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that I'm in, I think I'm more an exception than
487
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a rule. But it shouldn't be that way. I think
488
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today I'm the probably the only Indian lady over the
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age of fifty that is an IFBB pro. I don't
490
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know of any.
491
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Other five now as well?
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You mentioned right, sorry, fifty five Now there's maybe a
493
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fifty five plus county.
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I don't know if there is, but as there is
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fifty five plus, and I will compete in the younger
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categories too, So I'll compete in the fifty plus. I'll
497
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compete sometimes if I look at the girls, I might
498
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compete in the forty five plus. You just can't compete higher.
499
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But you can compete all the way lower. So yes,
500
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it is you know it when you really this, this
501
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was my
trigger. It's longevity. So forget bodybuilding, but just
502
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weight training is the key to longevity. And there's research
503
00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:39.000
study after research studies showing that the stronger your legs are,
504
00:28:39.519 --> 00:28:43.319
the stronger your glutes, your legs, and your hamstrings are,
505
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the longer you will live. The longer you will live
506
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without ailments and serious mobility issues and things like that.
507
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So you know, you can't control things like cancer or
508
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anything like that. But I see almost every Indian uncle
509
00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:04.119
and auntie, they all have knee replacements. They can barely walk,
510
00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:08.599
They're grossly overweight, they're limping around. It's because they never
511
00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:12.720
wait trained. They just didn't know they needed to do that.
512
00:29:13.039 --> 00:29:15.880
You know, even today, I see almost every one of
513
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my friends and they're all cardio bunnies. That's what I call. Oh,
514
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I worked out today, What did you do? Oh? I
515
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did the StairMaster and I did the elliptical for forty
516
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five minutes. I feel great. Uh, it's got going to
517
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change your body, guarantee you one second, one bit. It's
518
00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:38.200
not going to change you. You're just breaking down muscle
519
00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:42.759
every time you're probably not eating you know how you
520
00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:47.759
should be, but you're not building lean muscle in any
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00:29:47.799 --> 00:29:52.240
weight by doing the elliptical or anything like that. Cardio
522
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is reserved for when you want to start, you know,
523
00:29:55.839 --> 00:30:00.720
shredding that body fat off you. But everybody should be
524
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weight training, and by weight training, I mean lifting heavy
525
00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:09.480
weights eight to ten reps heavyweights, and that's what's going
526
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to change your body composition. And once you change your
527
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body composition, you will it's like earning your youth back.
528
00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:20.640
You're more youthful. I mean, honestly, I'm stronger today at
529
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fifty five than I was when I was thirty five.
530
00:30:24.559 --> 00:30:26.359
It's crazy, isn't that recovery?
531
00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:29.440
Yes, it takes me longer to recover from workouts and
532
00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:32.519
say it's just but I am stronger today. I can
533
00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:38.400
do an easily a two hundred and eighty pound deadlift easy,
534
00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:41.920
you know I can. I can go up over three
535
00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:46.720
hundred pounds on hip thrust, and I couldn't dream of
536
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doing that in my thirties or forties. So it is.
537
00:30:50.680 --> 00:30:54.599
It doesn't matter your age. If you're consistent, your body
538
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will respond, It adapts, and it's extremely much more resilient
539
00:30:58.839 --> 00:30:59.680
than you think it is.
540
00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:01.599
Yeah, no, that's one hundred percent true.
541
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And I think that's inspiring for a lot of people
542
00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:06.200
who who are like worried about it, and they're like, yeah,
543
00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:09.200
like you said, they do get on the elliptical or
544
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maybe they were on a I don't know, they're basically
545
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running for a mile or two even on a daily basis.
546
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But you know, well, that's great. It's good for your
547
00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:19.440
heart to do cardio.
548
00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:21.759
When the doctors tell them to go work out three
549
00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:23.559
days a week. But what do you say to those
550
00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:27.559
people who just like, Okay, I did that and you
551
00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:29.160
know it's what I was told to do and it
552
00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:31.759
should make me feel better. Is there a certain amount
553
00:31:31.839 --> 00:31:36.960
of like nutrition that obviously is really important for them
554
00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:38.279
to be able to do because you can't just kind
555
00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:38.960
of stop eating.
556
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You've also got to recover.
557
00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:42.920
And so how important would you would you place the
558
00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:44.839
nutrition versus the weight training?
559
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Was there a sort of ratio there was it? Depending?
560
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Eighty percent of your results are going to come from diet.
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Your life is the ocean and your heart is.
562
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App Days I Keep.
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My Sayes forgive me for fee. I mean it's as
566
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hard as it is. You got to have the high
567
00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:28.599
protein diet, you gotta have medium carbs. I mean most
568
00:32:28.599 --> 00:32:30.599
people are like, cut your carbs, too many carbs, too
569
00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:33.279
many carbs. No, there's days I eat three hundred grams
570
00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:36.039
of carbs a day and I don't even gain a pound.
571
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The eating the right carbs is really important
because carbs
572
00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:43.279
are needed to build muscle. That's what people don't realize.
573
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:45.559
They keep cutting the carbs and doing all this keto
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diet crap. You know, and keto diet works in a
575
00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:56.319
specific case, right, there's a good use case for it.
576
00:32:56.880 --> 00:32:59.880
But if you want to change your body composition, you
577
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:03.200
have to eat a good amount of carbs, which is
578
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about you know, one hundred to two hundred grams of
579
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carbs a day. Protein and healthy fats. Fats are important
580
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so that exact macro balance. It's different for every person.
581
00:33:18.119 --> 00:33:21.119
But that's the biggest misconception. I mean everyone's like, oh,
582
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Usha do you You probably don't eat any carbs. I go.
583
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I would die if I didn't need any carbs. I
584
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won't even go exorcise that day. I won't because I
585
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:33.039
don't have carbs. I don't have anything to push myself.
586
00:33:33.319 --> 00:33:37.519
Where's the energy coming from? Not eat the rice, sweet potatoes,
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oats like things I avoid. I avoid any kind of
588
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pastas and gluten. I generally avoid bread and wheat. But
589
00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:51.480
there's such great carbs out there that you can eat,
590
00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:54.039
Like sweet potatoes is a superfood. It's the best thing
591
00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:54.880
you can probably eat.
592
00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:56.799
Yeah, sweet potato rice is okay too.
593
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White rice is excellent, White jab men rice, bosmati, rice, oats,
594
00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:07.319
oats are phenomenal, right for energy.
595
00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:10.719
Yeah, I think that that's the thing that I think
596
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is a misconception. Uh.
597
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And I think that you you know, you're clarifying that
598
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all these are things that we just don't know about.
599
00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:18.480
And as part of it is education and so like
600
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you said, you meet those people who are so out theaking.
601
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They absolutely can do it.
602
00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:24.599
I just they just don't know. They're told no carbs.
603
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Are they having some lettuce and whatnot with this, or
604
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just eating protein all day, which then confuses the body
605
00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:33.039
and probably doesn't help them when they're doing And it's.
606
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Hard on your kidneys too, you know, kidneys have to
607
00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:38.639
work so hard, and so there is that right balance.
608
00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:40.719
You do need the carbs. Now, when you're in the
609
00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:44.199
cutting stages, my carbs keep coming down each week. As
610
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I you know, there's a right time to reduce your carbs,
611
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but not not when you're trying to change your entire
612
00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:54.079
body composition. That's not the right time.
613
00:34:54.280 --> 00:34:56.159
So what do you say to those people? Then?
614
00:34:56.199 --> 00:34:59.079
Okay, so they're doing all of those things, they're you know,
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you're getting them trained, and maybe their goals are just
616
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to be very lean and look lean for not necessarily
617
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compete for something.
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But they.
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Tend to cars and they say, look, I don't I
620
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can't run because I don't have bad knees or whatnot.
621
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Is there another way that they can do this? Like
622
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I heard, and I'm just assuming.
623
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For those people who do it, they're like, just walk
624
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and if you walk, that's fine, you don't have to run.
625
00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:27.760
I'll give you the secret to drop tons of body fat.
626
00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:30.840
And this takes people years, and I'm going to give
627
00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:34.159
you the secret right now. So if you wake up
628
00:35:34.199 --> 00:35:37.719
in the morning, just have your black coffee and get
629
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:42.639
on a treadmill and walk on the highest incline. So
630
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twelve and a half percent of fifteen percent at three
631
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miles an hour, just walking three miles an hour at
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twelve and a half thirteen incline. Don't hold on to
633
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the rails. You will see the fat will just melt away.
634
00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:04.360
You don't need to do high intensity cardio. You don't
635
00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:07.119
need to be sweating like crazy. You want to put
636
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your body in that right heart rate zone that you're
637
00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:16.280
burning fat for energy. Okay, there's a very very specific
638
00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:20.519
method to cardio. If you can do hit the high
639
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intensity cardio. A lot of bodybuilders do. I do it
640
00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:28.960
on occasion, but the best, the best cardio out there,
641
00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:32.679
honestly is walking on an incline, walking uphill.
642
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Okay.
643
00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:37.199
So if that's a secret, okay, so there's
somebody's I mean,
644
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they said whenever you do it. Obviously, some people can't
645
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do it in the morning. Maybe they're going to work
646
00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:42.679
or whatnot. Maybe they'll have a discipline. They can do
647
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it any time during the day. They can go and
648
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do this. So if they put it on an incline,
649
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it has to be twelve or ten, or it.
650
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Has to be something a little bit.
651
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Strenuous, so and above maybe something like that at least ten.
652
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At least at ten percent because you're firing your glutes
653
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and you're firing your hamstrings, You're firing the largest muscle
654
00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:09.199
groups in your body. And when you fire those large
655
00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:15.320
muscle groups, your energy expenditure is way higher, right as
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opposed to just walking straight. So you are also kind
657
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of conditioning those muscles. You're actually making a response if
658
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you're building more fibers there. So are you target large
659
00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:30.599
muscle groups. If you want to really increase your heart rate,
660
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grab a five pound weight and do bicep pearls. You know,
661
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every five minutes, do twenty thirty bicep pearls while you're
662
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on the treadmill walking. You know, there's a lot of
663
00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:47.320
creative things you can do. Engaging large muscle groups is
664
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the key for energy expenditure, burning calories, and the calories
665
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will be coming from if you're fasted, most of those
666
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calories come from body fat. Store body fat. But you
667
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can do cardios I do when I'm sometimes cutting in
668
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my cut. Sometimes what I do is I do cardio
669
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twice a day. I might do cardio thirty minutes fasted
670
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in the morning, and then I said, oh, I don't
671
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have time to do forty five minutes today. I'll do
672
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twenty to thirty minutes in the morning. And then at night,
673
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you know, I'll watch a TV show on the peloton.
674
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I'll just ride my peloton and watch a thirty minute
675
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episode of something, and you know, so you'll get your
676
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cardio in and you just stay within the right heart
677
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rate that your coach gives you.
678
00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:40.760
That's a great idea too. I mean, you've basically now
679
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you know, because you're keeping going. But I love the
680
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fasted sort of type of thing because I think when
681
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you're you're already fasted, the only thing you're gonna burn
682
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is fat. You don't have a bunch of massive meal
683
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that you had for dinner.
684
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Yeah, you don't have too much glycogen in your blood stream, right,
685
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you don't have a lot of bluecoats. So waking up
686
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and not eating any you know, just drinking a cup
687
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of coffee or whatever, we'll give you that the caffeine
688
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will give you that additional boost. And it is. And
689
00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:10.079
then you know, if you really really want to drop weight,
690
00:39:10.199 --> 00:39:14.559
take some L carnatine. Uh, you can buy L carnatine
691
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and there are pills. You can buy them on Amazon.
692
00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:19.119
Take a couple of L carnatine pills and what it
693
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does is mobilizes fat for energy.
694
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Oh wow, okay, L carnitine quarantine. How do you spill it?
695
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L dash carnatine?
696
00:39:28.679 --> 00:39:31.000
Oh okay, okay, all right. So is it like creatine
697
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:32.280
or no, not really, it's.
698
00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:35.719
It's it's you can buy it on Amazon. It's a supplement.
699
00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:39.000
It's kind of like creatine. And I do take creatine.
700
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Creatine is creatine monohydrate or creatine HCl either one. And
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I do take creatine, like five five grams of creatine
702
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after post workout. Now it will Creatine makes you hold
703
00:39:53.960 --> 00:39:56.199
on to a little bit of water. It's not that
704
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big of a deal, but your muscles look big and
705
00:39:58.440 --> 00:40:01.599
round because you know you're holding on water. But it helps,
706
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it's a recovery and it's really good for your neural
707
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networks as well, a lot of impact on the brain.
708
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Okay, cool, Well that's awesome.
709
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So so that sounds like there's a lot of people
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talk about intimate and fasting.
711
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Right by the way, do you believe in that?
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I mean, they wait till they're twelve, may till midday,
713
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or they wait till and then they work out because
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00:40:23.039
they've already like they're already fasted, so there is time
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to work out.
716
00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:27.119
But then the intermittent fasting is is you know, you
717
00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:29.880
just have to cycle on and off of it because
718
00:40:29.920 --> 00:40:33.840
your body is too smart. It'll realize your intermittent fasting
719
00:40:33.920 --> 00:40:36.639
and it'll slow down your metabolism so you will not
720
00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:39.519
burn that many calories. So you got to keep intermittent
721
00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:42.559
fast for four weeks and then cycle out of it
722
00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:47.280
so your body doesn't so it'll keep your receptors fresh
723
00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:51.079
or otherwise it'll adapt to intermittent fasting. It'll slow down
724
00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:53.719
your metabolism, it will slow down your caloric burn and
725
00:40:53.760 --> 00:40:56.559
now it's not going to be as effective anymore. That's
726
00:40:56.639 --> 00:40:59.639
the key. You got it. You gotta cycle cycle.
727
00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:03.119
It so sosh. I mean like when you're in the
728
00:41:03.159 --> 00:41:05.239
gym and you see other people. People come up to
729
00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:07.119
you and say, hey, you know what, how'd you get
730
00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:09.679
this way? And how do you look like this? And
731
00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:11.599
then is that how you get clients or I mean
732
00:41:11.800 --> 00:41:12.679
looking for clients.
733
00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:15.679
I don't have any clients. Everyone I coached, I just
734
00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:20.400
did it. I just did it as a friend. My
735
00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:27.840
income comes from engineering now, so we have to I
736
00:41:27.960 --> 00:41:32.639
you know, a couple of clients actually seriously asked me
737
00:41:32.719 --> 00:41:36.000
to train them, and I'll consider it, or they really
738
00:41:36.079 --> 00:41:40.559
want to completely change and potentially compete at some point,
739
00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:45.400
and I can help them do that. But right now,
740
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:48.760
I just train people, you know, people that I know,
741
00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:51.599
and I'm like, here, this is kind of my service
742
00:41:51.639 --> 00:41:52.360
to the community.
743
00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:55.800
Yeah, that's fantastic. You know, that's part of what we
744
00:41:55.880 --> 00:41:58.559
do on this radio show, on my show as well.
745
00:41:58.599 --> 00:42:03.079
It's like it's it's really elevating these voices the people
746
00:42:03.360 --> 00:42:06.360
like yourself. I feel it's a service to community, whether
747
00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:08.639
you're in so I spend a lot of time obviously
748
00:42:08.679 --> 00:42:11.840
with people talking about and entertainment, but it's a costing director,
749
00:42:11.880 --> 00:42:14.760
whether it's directors, and they share their stories and sharing
750
00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:17.039
your story just like you have in terms of hey,
751
00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:18.159
you know, this is how I did it, and this
752
00:42:18.199 --> 00:42:21.440
is how I stayed disciplined. It's really to also inspire
753
00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:23.199
others to say, hey, you know I can do it,
754
00:42:23.519 --> 00:42:26.199
or yes you can, you know, turn around and basically
755
00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:30.000
focus on whatever you really love to do and then
756
00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:31.960
pass it forward and maybe that's that's that's a great
757
00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:35.159
way of doing it, and then highlight yourself somebody who
758
00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:37.920
has done it, you know, because a lot of people
759
00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:40.159
have the intention to, but just like you said, they
760
00:42:40.199 --> 00:42:42.239
just don't know how they've been told the wrong things.
761
00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:44.199
I mean some people are just told, hey, you just
762
00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:46.440
got to cut the cabs and cut the carbs, you'll
763
00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:47.000
be good, you know.
764
00:42:48.199 --> 00:42:50.599
And so there is there's there is a formula to it.
765
00:42:51.360 --> 00:42:53.800
There's obviously you can get as granular as you want
766
00:42:53.840 --> 00:42:56.360
with it if you're competing, and the.
767
00:42:56.360 --> 00:43:01.079
Key is trusting the process. People want immediate results, and
768
00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:05.039
you know, changing your body composition is not an immediate thing.
769
00:43:05.800 --> 00:43:10.639
It takes multiple It takes like twenty twenty twenty to
770
00:43:10.760 --> 00:43:15.800
thirty weeks of consistently doing it to really see significant change.
771
00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:18.159
But most people give up. They're like, oh I tried it,
772
00:43:18.679 --> 00:43:21.119
you know, it don't work for me. Right, It's just
773
00:43:21.639 --> 00:43:26.159
there is delayed gratification, but it is very gratifying and
774
00:43:26.199 --> 00:43:29.119
it is addicting. Once you get to that stage, you
775
00:43:29.119 --> 00:43:29.920
don't want to use that.
776
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:32.840
How are your parents into this or is this something
777
00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:33.159
that you.
778
00:43:33.320 --> 00:43:39.039
Oh no, definitely not. It's there are your typical Indian parents,
779
00:43:39.239 --> 00:43:43.320
they're you know, rice eating, you know, just like, oh
780
00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:47.639
don't you're it's too heavy, you're taking too much risk. No,
781
00:43:48.199 --> 00:43:54.000
it all it is, and now they see it, they're like, oh,
782
00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:59.199
maybe you don't get so hurt. But you know, they're
783
00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:02.960
just like you know, an uncle and auntie. Oh, don't
784
00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:05.880
lift too heavy. It's not good for you. It's gonna
785
00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:10.840
hurt your
joints. And I'm like, mom, the reason why,
786
00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:13.199
like you have so many knee problems is because you
787
00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:15.199
never build your legs.
788
00:44:15.559 --> 00:44:18.119
To say, well, I mean you told me something today.
789
00:44:18.119 --> 00:44:18.719
I build your legs.
790
00:44:18.760 --> 00:44:21.559
I mean, build your legs. And that's the key to longevity.
791
00:44:21.960 --> 00:44:26.239
And there's like all the big there's a whole series
792
00:44:26.280 --> 00:44:32.000
of bodybuilders that are physicians that I followed. They're mds, right,
793
00:44:32.079 --> 00:44:35.480
and they're in the bodybuilding community. And those are the
794
00:44:35.559 --> 00:44:39.320
guys that I really look to because they know the physiology.
795
00:44:39.679 --> 00:44:42.119
You know, they went to school for it, and they're
796
00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:46.880
doing this crazy sport and every one of them is
797
00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:51.679
the strength of your legs is directly proportional to your wellness.
798
00:44:53.760 --> 00:44:57.199
No, that's really good that you've shared that for people listening.
799
00:44:57.199 --> 00:45:00.440
And I'm curious from your perspective. I and again it
800
00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:03.760
might be a you know internet thing, grip strength. I
801
00:45:03.800 --> 00:45:07.400
keep hearing grip strength. Is this that's legivity?
802
00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:08.480
Is that true?
803
00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:09.559
Well?
804
00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:13.679
There is? You know, they there are tests you can
805
00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:17.559
do right, So a woman my age should be able
806
00:45:17.639 --> 00:45:22.840
to dead hang from a bar for two minutes just
807
00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:27.039
gripping with your fingers alone, and they say, well, that's
808
00:45:27.079 --> 00:45:29.800
a test that now you're you're good. You know you're
809
00:45:29.840 --> 00:45:34.400
in that stage. So there's grip strength is probably something,
810
00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:36.719
but you know, you have to look at the large
811
00:45:36.800 --> 00:45:39.599
muscle groups. The larger the muscle group, the more influence
812
00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:43.440
it has on your body. So grip strength is you know,
813
00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:48.639
all the calisthetic guys love it, but I still think
814
00:45:48.679 --> 00:45:54.480
from a physiological standpoint. I train legs four times a week.
815
00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:58.079
I do upper body only once or twice a week
816
00:45:58.360 --> 00:46:02.320
because and one day a week I only do back
817
00:46:02.440 --> 00:46:06.360
because there's so many there's so much musculature on your back,
818
00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:09.719
they're big, larger groups of muscles. You know, one day
819
00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:13.000
of shoulders and biceps and triceps and things like that.
820
00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:18.719
But doing your legs are really really important. And if
821
00:46:18.760 --> 00:46:22.320
you do your legs consistently, there's no need to train
822
00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:26.639
your core separately, because every time you do a dead lift,
823
00:46:26.760 --> 00:46:29.400
or you do a compound lift or a squad you're
824
00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:32.519
engaging your core every single time. That is what's giving
825
00:46:32.599 --> 00:46:36.480
you the power in supporting you and you'll start getting shredded,
826
00:46:36.760 --> 00:46:40.639
like in your mid section. So there's a lot of
827
00:46:40.639 --> 00:46:43.679
benefit to it because you have to brace yourself right
828
00:46:43.719 --> 00:46:46.519
when you're lifting something, you brace yourself and then you
829
00:46:46.599 --> 00:46:50.039
lift it. And then we always teach do not lift
830
00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:53.840
with your back, do you know, lift like through your legs,
831
00:46:54.199 --> 00:46:57.840
engage your core and lift, and once you get those
832
00:46:57.960 --> 00:47:02.320
habits formed, you'll see your body composition even in your course,
833
00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:06.960
starts changing. Mayan. My husband does not do any APPS
834
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:09.800
and he actually is walking around every day now with
835
00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:12.239
a six pack, which I'm like, this is just not fair.
836
00:47:12.599 --> 00:47:15.119
After work so hard to get my six pack and
837
00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:17.960
you just get it just what you know, Well, that's
838
00:47:18.039 --> 00:47:20.320
bringing alcohol over the weekends.
839
00:47:19.800 --> 00:47:22.519
Too, right, Well yeah, but I mean but he's engaging
840
00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:24.840
his legs, and that's what it is, engaging his legs.
841
00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:28.000
If you have a chance to work out, do legs,
842
00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:30.480
lift heavy, heavy legs.
843
00:47:30.559 --> 00:47:35.199
Yeah, that's a good takeaway. So I want to ask
844
00:47:35.239 --> 00:47:37.519
you a final question because it's this. This is really
845
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:40.239
useful and there's a lot of information here for people listening,
846
00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:42.800
and I think it's I'm very proud of you having
847
00:47:42.920 --> 00:47:46.280
being represented and I'm sure you've probably got a lot
848
00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:49.800
of people who you know, really want to say, hey,
849
00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:50.880
you know, I don't know how you did it and
850
00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:54.079
have questions around this as well, So real opportunity for
851
00:47:54.119 --> 00:48:00.360
them to to get inspired. If you were to basically
852
00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:04.239
go out and have an opportunity to meet somebody who
853
00:48:04.360 --> 00:48:08.239
you could have for dinner, and two people dead or alive,
854
00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:10.320
and you have the opportunity to do that, who would
855
00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:10.679
they be?
856
00:48:15.760 -->
00:48:22.639
I would I would love to meet Christian Bale, my guy,
857
00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:30.360
because this man is his ability to control his body
858
00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:34.440
and change it from one film to another. Like see
859
00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:38.599
how he looked at in Batman right, Dark Knight Rises
860
00:48:38.719 --> 00:48:43.880
or something. He just was just huge and ripped and
861
00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:47.480
shredded and you could tell that he's just put so
862
00:48:47.639 --> 00:48:51.559
much work into it. And then there's other movies where
863
00:48:51.559 --> 00:48:56.400
he's like the scrawny, really thin guy right, Just so
864
00:48:57.239 --> 00:49:03.280
a guy that can manipulate metabolism and manipulate it's just
865
00:49:03.440 --> 00:49:09.320
an incredible feat. You know, that level of control that
866
00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:13.480
you have over your body, that that impresses me. I
867
00:49:13.480 --> 00:49:16.840
would love to have a conversation with Christian Bale. Actually,
868
00:49:17.400 --> 00:49:20.320
one of my big dreams for many many years was
869
00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:24.679
to meet Arnold, which now I see Arnold at multiple
870
00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:29.079
USC functions because his kids went to USC. And he
871
00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:33.280
is he is the icon. He is the og and
872
00:49:33.360 --> 00:49:38.519
the god of anything bodybuilding. Right, So.
873
00:49:40.199 --> 00:49:42.519
Did you give you advisor? Does he tell you anything
874
00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:43.559
that inspires you?
875
00:49:46.360 --> 00:49:50.440
He will tell you the truth. He's not a very
876
00:49:50.559 --> 00:49:54.760
nice man. He'll be like, no, you don't look good. No,
877
00:49:55.039 --> 00:50:01.880
you know, he's just very but he's blunt. But he
878
00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:04.239
will tell you you don't have the look, or you
879
00:50:04.360 --> 00:50:06.239
have the look, or you gotta work on this. You
880
00:50:06.239 --> 00:50:10.599
got to build your upper body, you gotta. So he is,
881
00:50:11.239 --> 00:50:15.039
he is the icon. Right, I've met him a few times. Actually,
882
00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:17.920
I've had that pleasure. So I had to cross him
883
00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:20.480
off the list. But Christian Bale is still one of
884
00:50:20.519 --> 00:50:24.239
those guys that I'm like, how can you just manipulate
885
00:50:24.280 --> 00:50:28.519
yourself from movie to movie these quite and be so
886
00:50:28.719 --> 00:50:30.480
talented at what you do? Right? Right?
887
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:33.599
Right? That's that's crazy. Well, this is awesome.
888
00:50:33.679 --> 00:50:36.760
I mean, look, so much to talk about with this
889
00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:38.519
topic as well, and I think, yes.
890
00:50:38.519 --> 00:50:41.639
It's the breadth is incredible. We can just do one
891
00:50:41.760 --> 00:50:44.639
an entire hour just on diet or an entire.
892
00:50:44.440 --> 00:50:48.280
Hour, and I think that that's fantastic actually, and I'm
893
00:50:48.320 --> 00:50:50.559
sure there is. So if everybody wants to reach out
894
00:50:50.599 --> 00:50:53.480
to you and is listening and they're like, hey, you
895
00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:56.000
know what, I've got a question that I really want
896
00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:56.199
to ask.
897
00:50:56.239 --> 00:50:57.360
They can follow you on Instagram.
898
00:50:57.639 --> 00:51:00.719
Yes, sure, they can DM me through Instagram and you'll
899
00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:02.079
put my handle on it.
900
00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:05.079
Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, well we'll do that. But look,
901
00:51:05.079 --> 00:51:07.960
absolute pleasure to have you on the show. My pleasure
902
00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:10.760
inspiring not just for me but also for other South
903
00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:14.599
Asian females and males by the way out there as well,
904
00:51:14.639 --> 00:51:17.559
because it's so like you said, contradict you to how
905
00:51:17.599 --> 00:51:19.519
we've grown up, but genetics don't speak to it as
906
00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:22.400
much and stuff, and you look great, You're fantastic. I
907
00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:24.800
think you know in a crowd, you'll stand out. People
908
00:51:24.840 --> 00:51:27.280
will ask and inspires others. That's what it's really about.
909
00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:28.679
It's like, I want to look like that. Well, you
910
00:51:28.719 --> 00:51:29.280
put the work in.
911
00:51:31.360 --> 00:51:34.880
If there's one the parting words I have for this
912
00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:38.679
audience really is, there's if you if you were daydreaming
913
00:51:38.679 --> 00:51:40.599
through this entire podcast and you were going to take
914
00:51:40.639 --> 00:51:47.000
away one thing here is ladies, even jets, ladies lift
915
00:51:47.880 --> 00:51:53.519
heavy lift, intensely, take short breaks. You will not look
916
00:51:53.599 --> 00:51:56.440
like a man. You will not gain a ton of muscle.
917
00:51:56.519 --> 00:51:59.760
Trust me, is really, really, really difficult to gain muscle.
918
00:52:01.239 --> 00:52:07.199
But lift heavy and lift consistently. That's that's you know.
919
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:10.400
Forget don't even worry about cardio, forget about all that.
920
00:52:10.920 --> 00:52:14.039
Just lift heavy and you will see in three four
921
00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:16.679
months the results and your body changing.
922
00:52:18.280 --> 00:52:20.400
Fantastic advice. Pleasure to have you show.
923
00:52:20.559 --> 00:52:23.119
Thank you, Thank you so much. It was really a pleasure.
924
00:52:23.599 --> 00:52:24.039
Take care
925
00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:53.039
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